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The Ochoa brothers were huge players in the Medellin Cartel along with Escobar. There are actually three brothers, but Don Fabio is not featured on Narcos. Their prison stint was easy. They even avoided eating prison food because their mother made them homemade meals every single day for fear that they would be poisoned. But Gaviria’s plan almost backfired when word got out that the Ochoa’s were still operating their drug trafficking business from jail.

In 1990, President Cesar Gaviria enticed drug traffickers to surrender to Colombian authorities in exchange for not being extradited to the United States. The Ochoas decided to take the deal and only spent five years in a Colombian prison since they only got charged with importing illegal bulls from Spain.

The Extraditables was an organization created by Pablo Escobar, Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha and Fabio Ochoa Vazquez to avoid ending up in an American jail. In fact, their fear of this was so strong that it became their slogan. “We prefer a grave in Colombia to a prison in the United States.” They were pretty serious about their branding. They paid $50,000 for The Exraditables logo, which was more than 100 times the cost at that time. At first, they began publishing messages in newspapers arguing why would a Colombian who has never set foot in America be subjected to a trial there. It didn’t work, so they reverted to what they did best: killing people. They killed or threatened so many Colombian judges that eventually Congress created “faceless courts” where judges and witnesses would wear masks to protect their identities.

MAS ran an ad in the paper stating they wouldn’t pay and instead they offered a reward to any citizen who could provide information. They captured, tortured and left several members of M-19 in front of Medellin’s newspaper buildings with signs that read, “I’m from M-19 and I’m a kidnapper.” Needless to say, Marta was returned without any money being exchanged.

On November 12, 1981, they kidnapped Marta Ochoa, the daughter of Don Fabio from the Medellin Cartel. They initially asked for $15 million for her return, but the Cartel wasn’t having it. They formed the first paramilitary group called Muerte a Secuestradores (Death to Kidnappers) to get her back.